THE CONCEPT OF INSANITY THROUGH NIETZSCHE’S SUPERMAN THEORY IN FOOUR DIFFERENT LITERARY WORKS AND CULTURES; ROPE, HAMLET, MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN AND MAN AND SUPERMAN

Abstract

Although the word ‘society’ should mean protection, tradition, moral values and respect to each other, with the changing world, technology, science or the effect of new generations, it usually means for many people pressure, assimilation, isolation and not showing respect to different ones. Centuries can change traditions or even moral values because people’s point of view against everything evolves with their survival instincts; but this can be possible only if people are educated. On the other hand, uneducated minds create pressure against the ones who do not fit in their ‘own moral values or traditions’, their beauty standards, etc. and they tend to criticize because they always think they are superior than those do not fit in. But because of that, humanity separates into two ways; the ones who get the knowledge, learn the truth and create their own path and become overman; and the ones who cannot rescue themselves from society’s standards and gives up to live a stressful, desperate life and become mad. In the enlightenment of Nietzsche’s Superhuman theory and Foucault’s description of the madness of society, this thesis aims to find out whether a man decides to become mad while trying to prove himself to the society or it is the society that drives the man into madness while trying to turn him into a Superhuman. It aims to analyze with deep analysis of some characters such as Brandon from Rope by Alfred Hitchcock, Claudius from Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Saleem Sinai from Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie and John Tanner from Man and

Superman by George Bernard Shaw whether they have similar characterizations and attitudes although they are from different timeline and culture.